Long-term nasal congestion, yellow tongue coating, heat in the lung meridian

Nasal congestion is a condition that many people experience. It means that a person's nose is blocked, which has a great impact on a person's normal breathing, so many people with nasal congestion will feel very painful. Some people find that they not only have a long-term nasal congestion but also a yellow tongue coating. Many people say that this condition is caused by heat in the lungs. So how should we treat long-term nasal congestion, yellow tongue coating, and heat in the lung meridian?

What to eat if you have lung heat?

1. Duck

Duck meat is mild in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing the stomach. "Sui Xi Ju Diet" says that it can "nourish the yin of the five internal organs, clear away the heat of deficiency and fatigue, nourish the stomach and produce body fluid." People also believe that duck is the most ideal tonic food and is suitable for people with yin deficiency. Stewing duck meat with Northern Adenophora and lily has the function of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. It is especially suitable for cough, sputum, dry mouth and throat, and tuberculosis cough caused by lung heat and yin deficiency.

2. Lily

Lily has very effective lung moistening and cough relieving effects. The reason why lily has this effect is that it contains a large amount of mucus, which has a very effective effect of moisturizing and clearing away heat in the human body. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine practitioners have used lilies to treat symptoms such as dry lungs or lung heat and coughs. Not only is the effect very obvious, it can also completely cure the disease.

3. Ophiopogon japonicus

Ophiopogon japonicus is the tuberous root of the herb Ophiopogon japonicus of the Liliaceae family. Sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold. It enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It is used for lung heat and yin damage, dry and sore throat, hoarseness, aphonia, dry tongue and thirst, etc. It can be combined with Yuanshen, Shengdi, Platycodon, Licorice, Sophora flavescens, Trichosanthes kirilowii, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, etc.

4. Figs

Figs can clear away heat, resolve phlegm, and regulate qi, and are suitable for people with wind-heat type cough, excessive phlegm, and chest tightness. "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine" also records the local folk remedies for treating lung heat, cough, and hoarseness. Use 15 grams of figs, boiled in water and added with rock sugar for oral administration.

5. Loquat

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loquat has the effects of moistening the lungs and lowering qi, clearing away heat and thirst, and harmonizing the stomach. There is a record in "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" that "loquat can cure cough and spitting." Therefore, loquat is the best health fruit for lung heat cough. It can not only relieve cough, but also increase appetite and improve the body's positive energy.

6. Water Chestnut

Water chestnuts can resolve phlegm and clear away heat, and are especially suitable for people with hot cough and spitting of pus and sputum. Each time, you can use 250 grams of fresh water chestnuts, wash and peel them, blanch them in boiling water, and eat them raw, once in the morning and once in the evening, for 3 to 5 days.

7. Duck eggs

Duck eggs are cool in nature and sweet in taste, and can clear away lung heat. "Bencao Gangmu" also believes that duck eggs "clear the heat from the heart, abdomen, chest and diaphragm." "Yi Lin Zong Yao" once introduced that "duck eggs nourish the heart and clear the lungs, stop heat cough, and can be eaten with Baifei Decoction to clear lung fire." It is suitable for people with lung heat and cough.